Tenedos

The island was formerly named Leucophrys, and was renamed to Tenedos by Tenes.

Tenes was a son of Cycnus and Procleia, but it was said that his real father was Apollo. He was a brother of Hemithea. Cycnus was a king of Colonae, near Troy. Procleia was a daughter of Laomedon, which would make her a sister of Priam. Cycnus later married Philonome, daughter of Tragasos, but she was in love with Tenes. Philonome unsuccessfully tried to seduce her stepson, so she accused Tenos of trying to seduce her. This was successful, because she produced a false witness named Eumulous, a flute player. Cycnus bundled Tenes and his daughter into a chest and threw it into the sea. Later, Cycnus would discover his wife's accusations were false, so he had her buried alive, and he had Eumulous stoned.

The chest arrived on the beach of an island, and Tenes would change its name to Tenedos. He ruled it until the Greek fleet approached his island. Tenes managed to drive the fleet away by pelting the ships with stones, but Tenes was killed by Achilles. Achilles had been warned by his mother, the sea goddess Thetis, not to kill Tenes because he was a son of Apollo; Apollo would later be responsible for Achilles' death. (See Sacrifice at Aulis and the Death of Achilles.)

When the Greeks sacrificed to Apollo in order to appease the god, a water snake bit Philoctetes, owner of the bow of Heracles. The Greeks would later abandon Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos because the stench from his snake bite was terribly unpleasant.